Naula kultainen kulahti

SKVR VII3 loitsut 1088·Kitee·1828·Collector: Lönnrot, Elias

In the SKVR edition: Kitee. Lönnrot Q, n. 418. -28.

SKVR textEnglish

Maon sanat.

1Naula kultainen kulahtiThe golden nail clinked,

2kultaisellen kalliolle,onto the golden rock,

3hiki heinään helähti.sweat rang into the hay.

4Onko hän se Hiien karva,Is this Hiisi's fur,

5tahi liene heinän karva,or perhaps the hay's fur,

6maan karva, kanervan karva,earth's fur, heather's fur,

7vai on kaiken ilman karva?or the fur of all the sky?

8Simo suustasi sulook,Simo melts from your mouth,

9mesi keitä kielestäsihoney boils from your tongue

10haavoin puremiseen,for wounding bites,

11rakoin repimiseen;for splitting cracks;

12luulit puita purreesi,you thought to bite trees,

13pajun kuorta pan̄eesi,to set willow bark,

14etpä puuta purrutkaan,yet you bit no tree,

15pajun kuorta pan̄utkaan,nor set willow bark,

16purit ihmisen lihoa,you bit human flesh,

17taikka karvoja kapeen,or hairs into confinement,

18puun juuren pujottelia,threading through tree roots,

19läpi mättäjen meniä.going through stumps.

English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.

The text is that of the SKVR digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), with these changes:

The edition’s line numbers are replaced by a number on every verse, counted as in the poem reader.

Source

Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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